Brokaw Laments, Americans Trusted Us Before Social Media!

Longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw came on CBS’s The Late Show Monday to talk about his new Watergate book and compare the impeachment inquiry of Richard Nixon to the current impeachment of President Trump. While he was there, he also boasted how journalists in his day could be counted on to report accurately; but today, people got their news from social media which couldn’t be trusted.
Kristine Marsh
December 10th, 2019 9:10 AM

MRC Files FEC Complaint Against Bloomberg News

RESTON, VA -- On Monday, The Media Research Center (MRC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Bloomberg LP, the owner of Bloomberg News, Michael Bloomberg and Mike Bloomberg 2020, Inc. The complaint maintains that the policy adopted by Bloomberg News to omit investigating Mike Bloomberg and the other Democratic presidential candidates while continuing to…
NB Staff
December 10th, 2019 9:05 AM

CNN's Primetime Ratings Drop to Three-Year Low Despite Impeachment

CNN continues to lose viewers, especially during its slate of primetime programs. In fact, the network’s ratings fell to a three-year low during the week of November 25 to December 1. During that period, CNN only drew an average of 643,000 people from 9 to 11 p.m., while the Fox News Channel had an audience of 2.2 million and MSNBC attracted 1.3 million. Conservatives were quick to blame what…
Randy Hall
December 10th, 2019 7:53 AM

Twitter Censors Conservatives Who Report on Saudi Arabian Shooting

“Journalists play a critical role in our society: keep the world honest and balanced. They are true servants of the people,” said Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweet from 2015. But it seems only certain kinds of journalists “play a critical role” on Twitter. Fox News host Pete Hegseth was censored by Twitter, apparently for posting a tweet that showed a screenshot of the manifesto said to have…
Corinne Weaver
December 10th, 2019 6:44 AM

Cooper Claims FBI Was ‘Doing Their Best’ Despite Exposed Misconduct

With the release of the Inspector General’s report exposing FBI misconduct in pursuing the Trump campaign under the suspicion of Russian influence, the liberal media were more interested in bashing President Trump than criticizing the abuses of the FBI. CNN’s Anderson Cooper kicked off his show on Monday doing just that, suggesting President Trump was lying and “gaslighting.”
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 9th, 2019 11:44 PM

HBO’s ‘His Dark Materials’ Bashes Evil Church Fighting ‘Tyranny of Sin

HBO’s His Dark Materials is closing in on its finale which means we’re finally figuring out what’s going on in the story. In an unsurprising turn of events, the Church stand-in in the story written by a devout atheist is bad.
Lindsay Kornick
December 9th, 2019 11:11 PM

NY Times Scared of ‘Authoritarian’ Barr Pandering to ‘Far Right' GOP

New York Times reporters Jeremy Peters and Katie Benner caught up to a weeks-old story, keyed to a speech by Attorney General William Barr to The Federalist conservative legal society that frightened the left. On Monday’s front page, they tried to transform Barr into a “far-right...authoritarian” bogeyman: “Right Rejoices As Barr Assails Liberal Culture -- No-Apologies Style Fits the Party of…
Clay Waters
December 9th, 2019 10:50 PM

MSNBC's Katy Tur Frets Liberals Not Doing Much to Dismantle Capitalism

On Friday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur was again putting on display her environmental liberalism and adherence to global warming alarmism as she spoke with liberal environmental activist Amy Westervelt, who hosts a podcast that rails against the fossil fuel industry. A bit later, as she handed off hosting duties to her colleague, Ali Velshi, she went into a rant about the issue, confessing that…
Brad Wilmouth
December 9th, 2019 10:18 PM

ABC Defends FBI’s Error-Filled Russia Probe of Trump’s 2016 Campaign

The Justice Department’s Inspector General report examining the origins of the Russia investigation was released on Monday. And in spite of “serious management failures” and “no satisfactory explanation” as to why certain actions were taken, the IG suggested there was no anti-Trump bias. Of course, certain members of the liberal media pounced such as ABC chief Justice correspondent Pierre…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 9th, 2019 9:42 PM

CNN Op-ed Lauds Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Delicious’ Snipe at Mike Pompeo

Ah, the decency and tolerance of the left: feign outrage at any and every imagined innuendo made by a conservative, but stand and applaud when one of their own smears conservatives at a nice evening. “When Will I Be Loved” singer Linda Ronstadt rebuked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for “enabling Donald Trump,” during a celebratory evening put on by his State Department in her honor.
Gabriel Hays
December 9th, 2019 6:18 PM

Blitzer Pushes Dem Talking Points: GOP ‘Repeating Conspiracy Theories'

The media just cannot bring themselves to admit that just because Russia interfered in the 2016 election, does not mean that Ukraine did not, even if on a smaller scale. The latest media personality to have this trouble was CNN's Wolf Blitzer as he interviewed Judiciary Committee member Tom McClintock of California before Monday's impeachment hearings.
Alex Christy
December 9th, 2019 5:33 PM

Telemundo, Univision Sound Alarm on New Food Stamp Rules

A record 28 million plus Hispanics in the United States were employed in November, 2019, but from what the Spanish-speaking nets convey, Latinos are – and must remain - eternally dependent on government assistance.
Kathleen Krumhansl
December 9th, 2019 5:29 PM

CBS Unimpressed By Hearing: ‘Not Exactly Pay-Per-View Material’

As CBS wrapped up special coverage of Monday’s impeachment hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, panelists were unimpressed. The event was panned as “not exactly pay-per-view material,” “getting really into the weeds,” and needing a “better storyteller.”
Kyle Drennen
December 9th, 2019 4:35 PM

Bloomberg's Magazine Touts How CNN's Boss 'Defined 2019' for Democrats

Bloomberg Businessweek magazine penned a puff piece on CNN president Jeff Zucker for its "Bloomberg 50" cover package on "The people who defined 2019." CNN defined 2019? And Fox -- often with double or triple the viewership -- did not? Bloomberg's magazine also picked losers like Stacey Abrams and Greta Thunberg. 
Tim Graham
December 9th, 2019 4:27 PM